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This is one justified Linus rant! My personal history includes data loss twice because of defective RAM, and many more RAMs discarded after the now obligatory overnight run of MemTest86+ (these were all secondhand RAMs - I would never buy a new one without a refund guarantee). My very first "PC" still had the ECC capability and I used it. My own now very dated rant on the subject: http://wandel.ca/homepage/memory_rant.html

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A few years back memtest86 wouldn’t run on newer machines, has that been fixed?

Wouldn't know, I don't run newer machines. But since it's a boot option on Fedora disks, I imagine it would run.

You bought used RAM DIMMs and were surprised that they failed?

Used computers that have RAM in them. But as I wrote, two of those computers were brand new with new RAMs in them.

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